Italy cruise ship Costa Concordia aground near Giglio

The captain and first officer of a cruise liner that ran aground off the coast of Italy are being held on suspicion of multiple manslaughter and
abandoning ship while passengers were still in danger.

Sources in the prosecutor's office said the 52-year-old captain from Naples had abandoned the ship at ''around 23.30'' while the last passengers
were not taken to safety until 3am the following morning.

Can not do that... Unless you are pirates.. Keep to the code and all that.

Just goes to show that we arent as advanced as we think we are and like the titanic that sank 100 years ago,if this cruise ship was further out
at sea,it would be at the bottom of the ocean with thousands dead...

Originally posted by kawika
A symptom of the times. They use inexperienced people, because they work cheap. They do little or no training, because it is too expensive, and
then wonder why these things happen.

They also use auto pilots

Autopilot sends cruise ship passengers flying

The U.S. Coast Guard is evaluating the need for guidelines governing the use of autopilots following an incident aboard the cruise ship Norwegian
Sky that sent passengers and objects flying.

There was a fire drill that required some and a briefing about departure that required some of them schedualed at the same time. I
believe there was nobody at the helm. One passenger said the buoy marked a popular scubba diving area that he had been to in the past. I think
they are covering up the fact that the auto pilot was attempting to keep us from running aground.

Autopilots again? I know commercial airplanes fly on them, but I just don't feel safe knowing the vessel is under control of an autopilot. As to why,
I don't think I can tell the full story about one. Let me just say, that at one stage, a certain model of military transport airplane was upgraded,
and a new autopilot was fitted during the upgrade. It later turned out that under certain conditions, the new autopilot would fly the plane into a
stall. As the country to whom these planes belonged to, were under sanctions, the bug was never fixed, and the pilots just have to fly the plane
without autopilot. How do I know this? I was on the flight on which the autopilot flew the plane into a stall, and it took me a long time (couple of
years) to trust autopilots again, but not on those planes.

Just goes to show that we arent as advanced as we think we are and like the titanic that sank 100 years ago,if this cruise ship was further out
at sea,it would be at the bottom of the ocean with thousands dead...

edit on 15-1-2012 by blocula because: (no reason given)

Well except it wouldn't have hit the huge rocked still embeded in the hull or did you just not think about that

Looks like skipper was asleep at the switch. If I had a ship like that to sail, I might never leave the bridge.

One passenger has accused the captain of drinking in one of the ship's bars on the night the vessel ran aground, before taking control after the
crash.

Phil Metcalf, whose daughter Rose was one of the last people off the ship, said she had revealed the captain allegedly abandoned ship in the early
stages of the evacuation, leaving his staff onboard.
He told BBC Breakfast: 'Since the captain had left there was nobody, so everybody was left to their own devices hence some of the chaos, so obviously
the crew took it upon themselves and decided in the absence of the captain to organise and try and help people.'

Originally posted by research100
bigyin, go back and look at the pics it was under water, totslly tipped over

It is not under water

It is not totally tipped over

that is true , but it happened at night, the power went out and totally dark inside the ship, only light people could see was the small blinky light
on the life vests. crew told people to go one way and then go the other way and it was super crowded, scary situation.

I can't help but wonder if this is somehow linked to the rumors of the encryption for gps having been cracked that I read about in the Iran drone
threads...And, this may be a bit tinfoil hat, so my apologies, but the chap arrested over the death of Stephen Rawlings the other day. (Dr Devinder
Sivia) is supposed to be big in Beyesian probability theory. Which among other things has its uses in code cracking.
I realise it may be a bit far fetched, but there you are.

I'm just saying that ocean liners now are almost as vulnerable as they were when the titanic sank 100 years ago and "if" this cruise liner
suffered a huge gash in its hull further out at sea,nothing would have prevented it from sinking and killing hundreds and perhaps even thousands of
passengers.How many life boats do these cruise liners have these days? Enough for over 4,000 people? Do they even have life boats?

yes blocula they had life boats but they didn't want to lower them?? at some point they finally did but it was really hard and not many were used
before it became impossible. Thats my understanding from what the passengers said.

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